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A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay
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brittany
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Brittany (; ; , pronounced or ; Gallo : Bertaèyn , pronounced ) is a cultural region in the north-west of France . Covering the western part of Armorica , as it was known during the period of Roman occupation, Brittany subsequently became an independent ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
French Bretagne , named for 5c. Romano-Celtic refugees from the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain who crossed the channel and settled there (see Britain ). The Little Britain or Less Britain ( lasse brutaine , c.1300) of old, contrasted with the Great Britain ...
Usage examples of brittany.
Those Celtic tribes occupying modern Brittany were much smaller and darker than other Celts, as were many Aquitanian tribes.
Atlantic coastal region just south of Brittany that was a center of counterrevolutionary insurrection.
Not only was the disappearance of Brittany Little not a dunker or a gimme, it was going to attract press attention once the details began to shake loose.
We passed the canopied doorway of an exclusive condominium where a uniformed doorman struggled to untangle the leashes of one Doberman, two Pekingese, a dachshund and a 129 GENEROUS DEATH Brittany spaniel.
He was sent far back, into Brittany, to Quimper, where, a second time, by a subterfuge he contrived to escape from the hospital before his wound was properly healed.
I am Tirant lo Blanc from Brittany, and of that singular lineage of Roca Salada, High Captain of the Greek Empire.
I will mix your blood with that of Roca Salada, and you will be reckoned among the women of Brittany, among whom you are certain to have the title of queen.
Brittany the rope-makers work out of the towns near those places where lazar-houses were once established.
Cornwall, the Scilly and Channel Islands, Ireland and Brittany, are the remains of its highest summits.
Grand Pierre says they are turning the whole of Brittany upside down in their search for you.
He raised the matter of this conference which is to take place at Chateau de Voincourt in Brittany this weekend.
There he had wandered, for the most part in Brittany, and at last had fetched up in Paris.
He was a young native of Champagne, who had just returned from a journey in Brittany, his spirit still aflame with stories of errant knights, wizards, fairies, and spells, which the inhabitants of those lands tell in the evening around the fire.
I sang the praises of the splendor of gold, a soft metal that can be transformed into the finest leaf, the hiss of the red-hot slivers when they are plunged into water to be tempered, and the unimaginable reliquaries to be seen in the treasures of the great abbeys, the high and pointed spires of our churches, the high and straight columns of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, the books the Jews read, scattered with signs that seem insects, and the sounds they produce when they read them, and how a great Christian king had received from a caliph an iron cock that sang alone at every sunrise, then what a sphere is that turns belching steam, and how the mirrors of Archimedes burn, how frightening it is to see a windmill at night, and I told him also of the Grasal, of the knights still searching for it in Brittany, about ourselves and how we would give it to his father as soon as we found the unspeakable Zosimos.
They say Tom broke up with Brittany and ditched school Thursday morning and nobody knows where he was from then till bedtime.